One Strong Girl Won the Inaugural Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction
by : Lesley Choyce
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UNB Writer in Residence Phil Hall says New Brunswick has a “special claim: no metropolis, fewer people”
For the second year, Pottersfield Press is looking for creative non-fiction submissions from writers
Chad Norman speaks of the importance of honouring elder poets, something he says Canada fails to do.
Heather Fegan reviews Anne Emery’s Though the Heavens Fall
Nova Scotia’s Pottersfield Press broadens its literary and geographic horizons
Bretton Loney’s The Last Hockey Player shows the value of human connection during challenging times, including these ones
Sydney Smith on the collaborative creation between writer, illustrator and editor
The Purple Frog by Angela Jeffreys, reviewed by Bobbi Pike
Theresa Meuse on why she wrote The Gathering: providing parents, teachers and other educators with a visual tool makes for a more fun and interactive way for children to learn and can spark more discussions and school projects that enhance the teachings of Mi’kmaq culture.
“I spent several years as a reporter interviewing fishers, reading reports, talking to processors, about the groundfish closure that devastated the Atlantic industry; it was when I read Donna Morrissey’s Silvanus Now that I FELT the horror of what was happening to the Atlantic fishery”
Her book confidently guides us through the mundane, disgusting, funny and ultimately fascinating world of public washrooms and their messy politics
